# Chichi
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 集集 (Jíjí) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-chi².

### Proper noun

Chichi
* Alternative form of Jiji
** 1977, 中華農學會報‎, numbers 97-100, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100:This experiment was carried out on a 13° (24%) slope banana plantation with clay loam soil at Chichi, Nantou Hsien from September 1970 to December 1975.
** 2003, “Nantou County”, in Vivien Kim, editor, Taiwan (Insight Guides)‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 205:South of Songpoling is Yuanchuan, a station on the famous Chichi Railway Line. Named after the picturesque small town of Chichi to the east, trains on this line take 50 minutes to travel the less than 30 km (19 miles) of narrow gauge that span the rustic countryside between Changhua and Nantou counties, making it the island’s most popular tourist railway line. Though Chichi was the epicenter of the 9-21 Earthquake (sometimes referred to in Taiwan as the Chichi Earthquake), and was nearly levelled, the railway line is already restored, the colonial-style station rebuilt, and the town on the way to recovery.
** 2005, Cheng Yen, “Self-Enhancement”, in Foreign Language Publications Department, transl., edited by Douglas Shaw, The Cycle of Beauty‎, Taipei: Jing Si Publications Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:Compared to the disaster areas of Chichi and Puli in central Taiwan, the areas that were relatively unaffected by the earthquake can be said to have encountered a strong karmic retribution but got away with little harm.
** 2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan‎, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL:Nine months after the ‘Interim Statute’ took effect a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit Taiwan on 21 September 1999, which was generally referred to as the 921 Earthquake.⁵¹ The epicentre — Chichi (Jiji) — was roughly 20 kilometres to the south of Chunghsing New Village, and the earthquake destroyed almost half of the community.
** 2015 March 30, “Magistrate Lin surveyed the county lands to increase county revenue by using them wisely”, in Nantou County Government‎, archived from the original on 26 September 2022:On February 25, Magistrate Lin Ming-chen surveyed a few pieces of land at Jushan, Chichi, Nantou, Caotun, and more, accompanied by the staff of the Department of Finance, Department of Land Administration, and other related offices. […] Then Magistrate Lin went to Chichi, Caotun, and Nantou. He surveyed Chichi Train Station, the agricultural land behind Caotun Water Plant, Caotun Second Cemetery, Zen Cultural Park, the public parking lot by Zhongshan Village at Caotun Town, and the land for dumping used equipment along Wenhua Road in Nantou City.
** 2015 June 16, Ping-chuan Liu, Chen Feng-li, Chen Wei-han, “Japanese chef searches for missing wife”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2015, Taiwan News, page 5‎:To settle in Taiwan and earn his living, he opened a ramen restaurant in Chichi Township (集集), a popular tourist destination in Nantou, where a multitude of temples are located, he said.
** 2017 November 18, “Arboreal fun”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 26 September 2022:This photo shows school children climbing a tree with a professional instructor at an event in Nantou County on Saturday. The activity was organized by the county's Chichi township office and attracted up to 60 participants.
** 2021, Huang Meng-Yuan et al., “Rapid Light-Response Curve of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Terrestrial Plants: Relationship to CO2 Exchange among Five Woody and Four Fern Species Adapted to Different Light and Water Regimes”, in Plants‎, volume 10, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:All plants were collected in March and then transplanted to pots (16-cm diameter, 12-cm depth, 1 plant per pot for the five woody species and As. antiquum, and 1 rhizome with 3–4 leaves per pot for the other 3 ferns) filled with organic soil and maintained outdoors in the nursery of the Endemic Species Research Institute, Chichi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan (23°49′ N, 120°48′ E, 250 m a.s.l.).
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chichi.

### Further reading

* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsitsi or Chi-chi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 1
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chichi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 766, column 3

## Japanese
### Romanization

Chichi
* Rōmaji transcription of ちち